Can't stop laughing that the wedding celebration is two balls and a half a strawberry. It's not even ... uh, maybe I shouldn't continue.

And then -- you show up with a not so hearty cake for the afterward partiers. Sweet pirate adding his take on it. (wonder who decided to take a slice of the chocolate part before dousing and wrecking?)

"Putrid peaches!!" exclaimed "R"edbeard as he beheld the wreck deliverrred to his honeymoon cabin.

Gotta love that the first one is presented on what appears to be a 19th century surgical instrument tray.

The second one -- I want to know more -- why an almost heart shape? is that a cheesecake under melon slices or just a cheese? Did anyone eat the "cake" or did they just take the big chocolate thing and run away?"R" indeed.

WV curter: Don't curter yet; I wanna take a picture of that theer cake first.

It's like an old style typewriter where sometimes a letter was out of whack and dropped half a line lower than the rest...."horny moon" becomes "hony moonr." Let's face it- if you weren't horny you wouldn't be getting married in the first place.

'Congratiftalions': A well-wishing to strangers you hope against hope not to see again in other pairings. Somewhat in the same line as "Love ya! Mean it!" or "Buh-bye!"

Two donut holes and half a strawberry in what appears to be either caramel sauce or gravy. How very existential. I hope it was complementary -- it certainly wasn't complimentary.

#2 Let's see. A black heart with no e's (ease), in front of which is thin slices of honeydew (honey-do) melon under some fruit -- all of which is atop something that could be 'for display only' or could be a giant peppermint LifeSaver. This thing has so many subliminal messages that I'm going to guess that the wreckerator has been through 'the process' a few times, and can't help letting his cynicism show through.

BTW we lived in Vegas for 9 years and really loved how Nevadans voted to ban gay marriage claiming that hetero marriage was sacred. Yes. In a place where you can get a drive-through Elvis wedding after filling in your marriage license application with a government-provided golf pencil (I am not kidding).

*Sacred*. Oh yes.

Then again, if you fight for the right to marry, maybe you want to go somewhere where your celebratory dessert can be spelled properly anyway...

A close-up inspection of the green "cake" reveals what appears to be an overturned ceramic bowl covered in thinly sliced and terribly over-ripe melon (you can see the melon draped over the lip if the bowl). It is topped with over-ripe peaches which have started to go brown in spots.

Along the bottom edge of the bowl appears to be ice and the peaches on top are still partly frozen, indicating it was frozen (Why, in God's name???? -- unless that was how they kept the chocolate sign attached).

I didn't even blink at the green cake, I've gotten soo used to seeing this... In Korea most of the cakes are decorated in glossy fruit slices. And I hate it. And the cakes here are NOT tasty, fluffy layers of tasteless buttercream (or too buttery buttercream), variations on whipped cream for icing, and again fluffy layers of tasteless cake... I love Korea but I'm not a fan of fusion anything. I'll try to get some pics of cakes around here the next time I think of it...

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